#72 Jeff Buckley 30x24 oil on canvas

This is a work in progress and is the largest painting I've ever done! I painted a very similar painting last year and decided I'd like to try it on a much larger scale.  

Jeff Buckley was an American singer songwriter who tragically died from drowning in 1997 at the age of 31. He recorded only one album  entitled, "Grace." Chart success came posthumously with his famous cover of Leonard Cohen's song, "Hallelujah" he attained his first No.1 on Billboard's Hot Digital Songs in March 2008.

Jeff Buckley 30x24 oil on canvas

Click on the arrow below to hear Jeff Buckley sing this awesome rendidtion of "Hallelujah."

#71 "The Broad Ripple Canal" 9x12 oil on canvas board

Last September, the day before flying back to California, I was in Broad Ripple. As I passed over the bridge early that morning, I couldn't help but notice the shadows and reflections. I found a place to park and took a few shots.

This is also a favorite spot of my good friend CW Mundy. He has done some amazing paintings of the canal.

"Landlocked" Series from Alaska

I decided to group the three completed paintings from the, "Landlocked" series and place them on the blog. A couple of summers ago while we were visiting my sister Deb in Alaska, I snapped a few photos in both Ninilchik and Homer, Alaska of boats. These particular vessels were no longer in service and had found themselves in disrepair and for the most part, forgotten. 

We had originally gone to Ninilchik to see and photograph the old Russian Church. As we drove thru the village, my eye just continued to drift over to these old boats. We stopped the car and I walked thru the tall grass and approached each of them. I thought they were visually fascinating! Each of them evoked feelings of wonderment.  Both "Forgotten" and "Ninilchik" were found in the village of Ninilchik while "Bumpers" was one of many found in an old boat graveyard near Homer. 

"Forgotten" 11x14 oil

"Bumpers" 9x12 0il

"Ninilchik" 9x12 oil

"Landlocked"

If these ol' boats could talk what stories they could tell! Where have they been? What have they seen? Who were the folks that depended upon their seaworthiness...